Video Highlights from DNC Delegates Meeting
Senator Obama’s Representative offers to seat half the Florida delegates:
Donna Brazile: My momma taught me to play by the rules.
Ickes threatens to take the fight to the Credentials Committee during debate over Michigan delegates:
Response to Ickes threat by Obama supporter:
The reading of the Michigan delegate motion and its passage, seating the delegates at 1/2 strength:
Video: Obama Resigns from Church
Obama explains why he and Michelle decided to resign from their church.
Happy DNC Delegate Decision Day
Well, it sounds like it’s going very well. Hillary has clearly decided to be the bigger woman and allow a compromise on the delegates from Florida and Michigan. “After all,” she surmised, “they weren’t really fair elections since my opponent didn’t campaign in either state and he didn’t even have his name on the ballot in one.” She went on to state that all her talk about Zimbabwe and the similarities between their violent blood bath and the DNC decision not to seat the delegates (not to mention the similarities between the decision and slavery, the civil rights movement, the fight for women to vote, the Civil War, World War II, World War I, Korea, Vietnam, the War of 1812, the Spanish American War, and that fight she and Bill had after it came out about Monica) was really just hyperbole and she had decided to favor the democratic process and the rules by which she had agreed to abide. Oh, and she added, “Yeah, right! I’m fighting this thing to the convention!”
From CNN:
Bleary-eyed Democrats failed to reach consensus early Saturday on how
to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations, setting up a potentially explosive
hearing later in the morning.
Members of the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws panel
convened for more than five hours behind closed doors Friday evening. The
meeting ended at 1:30 a.m. ET Saturday — eight hours before the committee is
scheduled to hold a public hearing on the matter.
“It was a full discussion,” said Harold Ickes, a DNC rules committee
member from the District of Columbia who supports Clinton. “I think there was
some agreement on some issues and still some disagreements on
others.”
Well, that sounds about like where they started. Here’s hoping smart people prevail.
Update:
The meeting is underway and Howard Dean is pissed at the media. (Yeah, they’re the ones causing the problems). From CNN: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean had tough words for
Oh, Howard. If you had control of this party to begin with it never would’ve degenerated into a sexist, racist free-for-all.
the media on Saturday, saying that the presidential race had been plagued by
“blatantly sexist comments, particularly by some members of the media — and
blatantly racist remarks.”
“The media will…look for conflict,” he told members of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee gathered to resolve the impasse over seating the Florida and Michigan delegations. “They will not talk about your energy and your passion for your candidate, and your enthusiasm.”
Update 2:
Video of Ickes threatening to take this fight all the way to the Credentials Committee.
Update 3:
Video highlights from today’s meeting here.
More Empty Promises to Move from Hollywood Stars
Remember when Alec Baldwin promised, er, threatened to move to Canada if President Bush was elected in 2000? (Nice of him to commute every week to film 30 Rock. What, he didn’t move? Shocking.) Well, Susan Sarandon is resurrecting the lame idea for this year’s Presidential race.
Why don’t they ever threaten to move somewhere like North Korea or China? Oh, the pain of having to live on the Italian Riviera! What a sacrifice she’d be making.
You may think Susan is a Hillary supporter, but it turns out Hillary’s not her Thelma. Obama is. She says, “I thought the whole point of feminism is that you’re not supposed to be defined by gender. I don’t understand the reasoning behind that, because I wouldn’t vote for Condoleezza Rice, and I hated Margaret Thatcher.”
I think that’s the only time in my life I’ve ever agreed with Susan Sarandon. However, she does almost makes me not like Obama just by her endorsement alone. Does anyone really believe she’ll move? Not likely.
Daily Show Video: Would We Like Bush if He Hadn’t F’d Things Up?
Stewart takes on President Bush and John McCain for not supporting the new GI Bill.
Daily Show Video: Obama’s Health "Record"
Stewart on Obama’s release of a one page letter from his doctor saying he’s in prefect health: What is he Achilles for God’s sake?
O Brother! Clinton and the Celebrated Jumping Frog
From the ABC News blog Political Radar:
Facing an increasingly improbable candidacy for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., showed no signs of stopping on the trail in South Dakota and cited an old Arkansas, saying in an off-handed reference to her campaign: “you can’t tell how far a frog will jump until you
punch him.”
That girls dummer than a toad sittn on a bulfrog. This, according to the Hillbilly Dictionary, means Hillary’s dumb.
I can’t tell if that was an invitation to punch her or not. After her assassination references it’s hard to tell sometimes…
Hillary’s comments deserve a rebuttal. Here now, is Mark Twain, with a quote from “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavares County”:
The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look [at the frog - i.e. Hillary], and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, “Well, I don’t see no p’ints about that frog that’s any better’n any other frog.”
There you have it. The frog was punched and found lacking. Where’s Big Dan from “O’ Brother Where Art Thou” when you need him? (You know, the guy that squashes and kills the toad that the characters think is Pete?) That reminds me, this is my favorite scene:
“We thought you was a toad!”
Somebody should tell Hillary, “Do not seek the treasure!”
McCain Heckled by Worst Protesters Ever
A group of anti-war protesters heckled McCain yesterday in Denver.
This is the worst attempt at heckling, protest I’ve seen. First, they don’t even shout anything you can hear, the second group can’t even get their sign straight, and then they just give up when the security guys show up. They don’t even make it to the moment where a heckler would yell, “Don’t tase me, bro!” The third group doesn’t even get their sign unfurled, let alone upside down.
As far as I can tell, they’re against the War in Iraq. I guess they made their point even if it was a sad effort. The weirdest part was McCain saying, “Now, if I could get back to Jack Kennedy.” What on earth was he talking about? Was the next line, “No one liked the bastard, and that’s why you shouldn’t vote for Obama?”
UFO Explodes Over Vietnam
No, this is not a fake story. From Reuters:
HANOI (Reuters) – An unidentified flying object exploded in mid-air over a southern Vietnamese island, state media said Wednesday, a day after Cambodia’s air force retracted a report of a mysterious plane crash.
The Vietnam News Agency said residents of Phu Quoc island, 10 km (6 miles) off the coast of the Cambodian province of Kampot, found shards of grey metal, including one 1.5 meters (1.5 yards) long.
“The explosion happened at about 8 km (5 miles) above the ground, and perhaps it was a plane, but authorities could not identify whether it was a civil or military aircraft,” VNA said in a report headlined “UFO explodes over Phu Quoc Island.”
Photo Courtesy Reuters.
This has about as much of a chance of being an object from another world as Hillary does winning the nomination.
Obama Winning General Election
Remember Bill Clinton’s claim that the Democrats were trying to rush Hillary out of the election because she was winning the “hypothetical” general election and Obama was not? Well, hold on there Bubba! Gallup now has Obama winning the general election as well.
In a new poll released today, Gallup finds Obama ahead (by one point!) over John McCain, 46% to 45%. Hillary is ahead by (gasp!) two points over McCain, 47% to 45%. The really fun poll though is Obama over Hillary, 52% to 42%.
